Quick question about the fees included in found blocks, do pools pay us these?

Stephen Gornick

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on July 25, 2012, 08:53:09 PM

So that works out to 0.25% to 0.50% extra.

Keep in mind that the miners that are not including the SatoshiDICE transactions are not receiving those fees. Thus there's a little higher percentage from fees for Slush and others that don't reject the SatoshiDICE transactions. It still represents a pretty small amount, but might be another factor that weighs when choosing a pool.

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http://blockchain.info/charts/transaction-fees

Still pretty low. ~20 to 30 BTC per day. 144 blocks per day. So that works out to 0.25% to 0.50% extra. Not much but one way to look at it is a pool which doesn't pay it has a "real" pool fee of up to 0.5% higher than reported. If tx volume keeps growing after the subsidy cut I think it will be more important. Fees could be 1% to 2% of total reward by December.

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on July 25, 2012, 07:13:46 PM

Depends on the pool. Some do. Some don't.

From personal experience IIRC Bitminter and p2pool both payout 100% of fees.

No idea if this is accurate but if it is it looks like only a small % of pools payout fees:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

Hmm: Bitminter is the largest no fee, hop proof pool which also pays out transaction fees. I knew I liked them for some reason.

Excellent! I might move to Bitminter now... I wish they were a little bigger, but at least they would get blocks with some decent frequency.

p2pool also looks very tempting. I would rather see p2pool become more powerful than any of them.

After a google, I found this link that shows average fees per block.. Pretty out of date though, what do fees look like nowadays?

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Depends on the pool. Some do. Some don't.

From personal experience IIRC Bitminter and p2pool both payout 100% of fees.

No idea if this is accurate but if it is it looks like only a small % of pools payout fees:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

Hmm: Bitminter is the largest no fee, hop proof pool which also pays out transaction fees. I knew I liked them for some reason.

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Hey, after I was thinking about SatoshiDice and the amount of fees that it is paying into the network, I was wondering if pools pay out those fees to users in found blocks, or do you have to solo mine to take advantage of that?

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